ISBN:
9781138928558
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version Claude Lévi-Strauss : The Bearer of Ashes
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
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Structural anthropology
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Ethnology ; Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored through a structural analysis of Tristes Tropiques, his most personal book, and his writings on art, nature and civilization and through a consideration of his debt to Rousseau. Dr Pace examines in depth L
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The artisan of knowledge; 2 The confessions of Lévi-Strauss; 3 Nature, art, and authenticity; 4 Echoes of Rousseau; 5 The critique of cultural evolution; 6 Out of history; 7 The semantics of ethnocentrism; 8 A universe of rules; 9 The anthropology of ressentiment; Notes; General bibliography; Index
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